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Floor L20°
Avg.Rating:
5.0 (6 votes)
DVDylan ID: D1037
Recording type: Audience
City/Venue: Buenos Aires, Argentina/Teatro Gran Rex
Date: Friday, 27th April 2012
Special thanks for filming and sharing the video to McLachlan.
Additional thanks for recording and sharing the audio to SPOT.
Edited, sound upgraded and shared by YASSOU.
  • Disk 1 (58:27:28) (Tracks 1-11)
    -Guitar Introduction [opening tiles over 20:00 still]
    -Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
    -Girl Of The North Country
    -Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
    -Tangled Up In Blue [file change after song]
    -Honest With Me [clipped 6:22 due to file change/1 still]
    -Desolation Row [file change after song/10:09 still]
    -Cry A While [clipped 7:25 due to file change/1 still]
    -Make You Feel My Love
    -The Levee's Gonna Break [file change after song/6:28 black still]
    -Love Sick [clipped/obstr. 36:00 due to file change/1 still; file change after song/12:08 still; Disk 1 message before Disk 2 of DVD-5 edition]
  • Disk 2 (45:57:10) (Tracks 12-21)
    -Opening Titles [tiles over 12:08 still]
    -Highway 61 Revisited [clipped 43:19 due to file change/2 stills]
    -Simple Twist Of Fate [obstr. start 21:08/1 still; obstr. trans. to next song/8:15 still]
    -Thunder On The Mountain [obstr./out-of-focus start 1:10:06/2 stills; shaky/obstr. 1:15:04/ 5 stills; file change after song/3:19 still]
    -Ballad Of A Thin Man [clipped 23:23 due to file change & obstr./2 stills; obstr. 10:06/3 stills; obstr. 58:16/2 stills; fade to 9:18 black still]
    -Like A Rolling Stone [obstructed start 46:10/2 stills; end obstr. 2:03/1 still w/fadeout to 13:08 black still]
    -Band Introductions [obstr. start 3:05/1 still]
    -All Along The Watchtower [cut 1:25:20 audio/video of break before encore]
    -Blowin' In The Wind
    -End Thanks & Credits [end thanks/credits/salute/fadeout; used 7:15 audio from encore break to fill end]
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Number of discs: 2
Running time: 01:44:19
Video standard: NTSC
Authoring: DVDs with menu and chapters are circulating
Disk author's rating: 4+/5/4/4-/5-

VIDEO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
Filmed by McLachlan with a Lumix DMC-ZS10 from Row 12.
Lumix DMC-ZS10 (Row 12/left)>.MTS files>CDs>MacBookPro4,1>Toast Titanium 11.0.4>.mov files (1920 x 1080i, AIC, Linear PCM)>iMovie 6.0.3.

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
Recorded by SPOT (LB-10086/excellent-A)
Core Sound High End Binaural (HEB) DPA 4061's with Edirol by Roland R-09>flac>DIME download>xACT 2.17 (5156)>aiff>Toast Titanium 11.0.4>disk images>iMovie 6.0.3.

Audio and video assets edited in iMovie 6.0.3; authored, multiplexed and burned to VIDEO_TS folder in iDVD 7.1.2 (Professional Quality 2-pass variable bit rate encoding).


This is a very enjoyable program enhanced in no small measure by an enthusiastic audience, the excellent SPOT soundtrack, and the skillful camera work of McLachlan. Although there are no surprise songs, Dylan puts forth a strong vocal performance. I especially liked the phrasing on "Girl of the North Country," "Simple Twist of Fate," "The Levee's Gonna Break," and "Ballad of a Thin Man," as well as the harmonica solo on the encore performance of "Blowin' In the Wind."

The filmer does a good job of panning and zooming from his 12th row seat. Challenges arise, however, during "The Levee's Gonna Break" and beyond when two audience members either arrive or decide to stand to the right of the filmer, thus providing a narrower window to navigate. To his credit, the filmer pans to other band members when Dylan is blocked so we at least get to see action away from the main man.

While not quite as good as D1034, I'll give D1037 a 5-minus and urge DVDylan members to add it to their collections.

Reviewed by yassou on 28th May 2012